IN WICCA, THE DIVINE, or deity, is greater than creation, and yet it is creation. It is immanent in all things, but it is also distant and beyond our grasp. It is too vast for us to comprehend in its entirety, but we can begin to experience it through our rela- tionship with the gods, who are facets of the divine. As I mentioned briefly in chap- ter 2, the two main aspects of deity that Wiccans work with are simply called the
Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the divine. In Wic- can thought, the union of the Goddess and God creates the universe. The rela- tionship between the Goddess and God is symbiotic. Like darkness and light, each half needs the other to express itself fully. The God represents, among …show more content…
This doesn’t mean that Wiccans will invite Thor and Freya to down a few brews while they watch the Super Bowl and eat Doritos, but it does mean that they talk directly to, work with, and get to know their gods at a level that is not nearly as easy to achieve in the framework of a large, mainstream religion.
So who are the Wiccan gods? The Goddess
The Wiccan Goddess is the mother of all things. She is the earth, which births and sustains us and receives us again in death. She is the source of fertility and abun- dance. She is the great and nurturing mother, but, since all things must die, she al- so represents death, which is necessary for rebirth. The moon is the symbol of the
Goddess. Like the moon, which has its waxing, full, waning, and new phases, the
Goddess has many faces. She is energetic and full of potential like springtime, ma- ture and fruitful like summer, aging and wise like autumn, and dark and silent like winter. Some Wiccans think of the Goddess as having three aspects—youthful maiden, fertile mother, and wise crone—and that she shows each of these faces in turn as the cycle of the year progresses. Others, like me, believe that she possesses and shows all of these attributes all of the time. She is the constant,
Goddess and the God. They are the female and male “halves” of the divine. In Wic- can thought, the union of the Goddess and God creates the universe. The rela- tionship between the Goddess and God is symbiotic. Like darkness and light, each half needs the other to express itself fully. The God represents, among …show more content…
This doesn’t mean that Wiccans will invite Thor and Freya to down a few brews while they watch the Super Bowl and eat Doritos, but it does mean that they talk directly to, work with, and get to know their gods at a level that is not nearly as easy to achieve in the framework of a large, mainstream religion.
So who are the Wiccan gods? The Goddess
The Wiccan Goddess is the mother of all things. She is the earth, which births and sustains us and receives us again in death. She is the source of fertility and abun- dance. She is the great and nurturing mother, but, since all things must die, she al- so represents death, which is necessary for rebirth. The moon is the symbol of the
Goddess. Like the moon, which has its waxing, full, waning, and new phases, the
Goddess has many faces. She is energetic and full of potential like springtime, ma- ture and fruitful like summer, aging and wise like autumn, and dark and silent like winter. Some Wiccans think of the Goddess as having three aspects—youthful maiden, fertile mother, and wise crone—and that she shows each of these faces in turn as the cycle of the year progresses. Others, like me, believe that she possesses and shows all of these attributes all of the time. She is the constant,